Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line 25 minutes ago Under the direction of director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell, the show by Tony Award winner David Zippel (lyricist and co-librettist), Joe Leonardo (co-librettist) and Jonathan Sheffer (composer) had a May reading in Manhattan. Tony Award-winning producer Hal Luftig (Movin' Out, Legally Blonde, Thoroughly Modern Millie) told Playbill.com July 8 that The Old Globe, known for nurturing pre-Broadway productions of The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will stage the Broadway-aimed musical comedy in January 2010. Mitchell (The Full Monty, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage aux Folles) remains attached to the silent-era, Hollywood-set musical. No official announcement by The Old Globe has been made. Luftig and The Old Globe produced a 29-hour reading of...
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